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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has claimed that a competition investigation that it launched last December has been responsible for forcing 18 European airlines to cease charging different prices for tickets on the basis of a customers’ country of residence.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SLOVENIA should be allowed to continue allocating half of its cross-border electricity transmission capacity free of charge to certain industrial users until July 2007 via a derogation from the 2003 EU regulation on such exchanges, the European Commission has proposed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPANY and private car drivers moving from one European Union (EU) Member State to another should not be required to pay fresh registration taxes when they change their country of residence, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN and Austrian MEPs have signed a so-called ‘code of honour’ not to fiddle expenses by over-claiming for flights to Strasbourg and Brussels. Until now MEPs have been paid the costs of (often expensive) normal economy flight tickets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Austrian pre-shaped steel manufacturer Voestalpine AG Euro 50 million to help it boost its metallurgical, welding and steel-forming processes plus undertake automotive sector research and development. The money would help fund a pre-rolling stand at the Leoben/Donawitz plant and a high-performance rolling mill at Voestalpine’s Schienen GmbH.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEEN in the context of the past decade, the entry of 10 new member states to the European Union (EU) which took place on May 1 has proved nothing like the disaster for the nuclear industry that was once feared.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) backed research project is promoting the use of hemp and flax to make fibreboard used in car manufacture. Coordinator Helmut Zimmer of Austrian renewable raw materials specialist Funder Industries said the Hi-Fi project would generate an “added-value opportunity” for hemp and flax producers, improving fibreboard door panel production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
ACCESS rights to drive across ecologically-sensitive Alpine passes in Switzerland and Austria – plus to Bulgaria and Romania – are being granted to hauliers from the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) in May.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed changes to a EU directive insisting “marmalade” is made from only citrus fruits, allowing Austrian jam makers to continue their traditional use of the term for non-citrus preserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) backed research project is promoting the use of hemp and flax to make fibreboard used in car manufacture. Coordinator Helmut Zimmer of Austrian renewable raw materials specialist Funder Industries said the Hi-Fi project would generate an “added-value opportunity” for hemp and flax producers, improving fibreboard door panel production.…